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An Asiatic patient complains of “elevated fire in the body”. A Micronesian woman explains that she is “possessed by sea ghosts”. A Latin man screams, striking his body violently with his fists upon hearing of his wife’s death. Manifestations of severe psychiatric disorder … or culture-bound expressions of more psychological issues? Culture is now acknowledged as an important consideration in diagnosis – in fact, this has been recognized formally in the DSM-IV. As technology and migration bring peoples into closer proximity to each other than ever before, the ability to reconcile imagery and behavior with cultural conceptualization becomes essential. And while this has led to an expansion of the literature, other sources do not offer the essential focus on assessment that Culture and Psychopathology does. The contributors to this authoritative volume address the complex and fascinating subject of psychological assessment across cultures. Chapters focus on issues including depression, anxiety, pain, psychoses, violent behavior, personality disorders and much more. The process of assessment is seen as an interactive dynamic between the patient and clinician. How this dynamic plays out – what lies at the cultural crossroads between presentation and assessment – is an increasingly important component of effective intervention. Culture and Psychopathology provides a stimulating look a this key theme of contemporary practice.

Culture And Psychopathology: A Guide To Clinical Assessment

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Child and Adolescent Psychopathology provides a unique opportunity to expose students to a cutting-edge approach to childhood and adolescent disorders by addressing and integrating the most current research on the genetic, neurobiological, and environmental factors that contribute to them. The text also emphasizes how, when, and why disorders emerge among young people and in what ways symptom profiles change at different stages of development.

Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

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Everyone’s favorite textbook on modern psychiatric diagnosis and treatment has been revised and updated not only to address changes introduced by DSM-IV but also to include more pointers on treatment and to add chapters on childhood disorders and sleep disorders. The book explains DSM-IV, presents its diagnostic categories, and illuminates them with psychodynamic, behavioral, social, and biological theories.

Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment

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This accessible, clearly written text approaches child psychopathology as “normal development gone awry” and encourages students to “think developmentally” about psychopathology, from childhood through adolescence. The fifth edition includes cutting-edge research, improved organization, and new coverage of problems that arise in late adolescence/early adulthood.

Developmental Psychopathology

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Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this authoritative text integrates state-of-the-art theory and empirical research on a wide range of child and adolescent disorders. Featuring contributions from leading scholars and clinicians, the volume is notable for its comprehensive coverage of the biological, psychological, and social-contextual determinants of childhood problems. Each chapter focuses on a specific disorder, describing its characteristics, developmental course, and epidemiology; outlining current diagnostic and classification schemes; identifying risk and protective factors; and discussing implications for prevention and treatment. Including a new chapter on adolescent substance use disorders, the second edition has been updated throughout to reflect important advances in the field. Incorporated is emerging knowledge in the areas of neurobiology, genetics, developmental psychology, and emotions, as well as new findings on sex differences in psychopathology and long-term outcomes for children at risk.

Child Psychopathology, Second Edition

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Psychopathology and Function

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A comprehensive revision to the authoritative textbook on modern psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. Considered a leading text in the field on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders, this latest revision includes cutting-edge updates in neurochemistry, psychopharmacology, genetics, and functional neuroimaging. Geared to resident students in psychiatry and related disciplines, it makes sense of the field’s burgeoning scientific emphasis. .

Essential Psychopathology & Its Treatment

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Whether to enhance theoretical understanding or improve clinical efficacy, behavioral disorders and psychopathologies must be examined in terms of their underlying behavioral mechanisms. Diagnostic approaches focus on the symptomatology of psychopathologies and behavioral disorders, limiting their understanding of aberrant behavior to the presenting symptoms alone. The reliance on behavioral mechanisms to explain psychopathologies, however, affords researchers and clinicians a much broader perspective to assess the causes, course, and treatment of aberrant behavior.

Geared principally toward researchers in the behavioral sciences and clinical specialists, Behavioral Mechanisms and Psychopathology is a survey of quantitative and qualitative research designs to isolate and identify behavioral mechanisms–theoretical and physical entities and pathways that mediate behavior in a variety of psychopathologies and behavioral disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, unipolar depression, anxiety and eating disorders, and alcoholism and substance abuse.

Behavioral Mechanisms and Psychopathology: Advancing the Explanation of Its Nature, Cause, and Treatment

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Univ. of Delaware, Newark. Discusses present state of knowledge about the phenomenology, origins, and courses of major mental disorders. Provides a unified guide to understanding diverse causes of mental disorders using a unique adaptation of a general diathesis-stressor supermodel. For graduate students, teachers, practitioners, theorists, and researchers. Softcover.

Vulnerability to Psychopathology: A Biosocial Model

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Psychopathology is the study of the signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders – delusions, hallucinations, phobias, depression, for example. This book gives an account of the terms currently in use and attempts an in-depth analysis of the nature of each. The matter is examined both from a philosophical perspective and from the point of view of what is known about the function of the hemispheres of the brain.

Principles of Psychopathology: Two Worlds, Two Minds, Two Hemispheres